Stochastic Silver Strategy
This tutorial should be called: Combining Stochastics with other Indicators, but Stochastic Silver System sounds real nice.
Stochastic Oscillator indicator can be combined with other indicators to form a trading system. For our example we will combine it with:
- RSI
- MACD
- Moving Averages Trading Technical Indicator
Example 1: Silver Stochastic Strategy
Sell Trading Signal Generated using Stochastic Trading System
From our silver trading system the sell trade signal is generated when:
- Both Moving Averages are moving down
- RSI is below 50
- Stochastic heading downwards
- MACD heading downward below center-line
The sell silver signal was generated when all these silver trading rules were met. The exit signal is generated when a signal in opposite market direction is generated i.e. When the indicators reverse.
The good thing about using such a xagusd system is that we are using different types of silver indicators to confirm the trade signals and avoid as many whipsaws as possible in process.
- Stochastic - is a momentum oscillator indicator
- RSI- is a momentum oscillator indicator
- Moving Averages Indicator- is a trend following indicator
- MACD- is a trend following indicator
It is very useful to combine more than one silver indicator, as a combination of silver signals is better than relying on just a single indicator. The technical trading indicator combinations reinforce each other, and cancel out false whipsaw signals.
A trend following indicator helps a trader to see the overall picture, while using more than one momentum indicator gives better and more reliable entry & exit points for trading silver.
The silver indicators combinations and their silver trading signals help to decipher a lot of the trading market activity.
Example 2: Stochastic Trading System
Buy Trading Signal Generated using Stochastic System
For this example the trend is clearly upward, but at some point there were a few silver trading whipsaws generated by the stochastic oscillator silver indicator, can you spot them? - So the question is how can a trader avoid trading these silver trading whipsaws?
Well, the answer is that by looking at the other technical silver indicators such as MACD indicator a trader could have avoided the whipsaw, even the MACD indicator had not given a crossover silver signal although it was very close to the zero center line level, at the same time the gradient at which moving averages indicators turned was not so sharp as to warrant a decisive silver market trend reversal. Well the thing is that it’s not so obvious when it comes to recognizing market whipsaws: it is a skill that takes some time but after some time you can spot whipsaws from a mile away.
One tip is that as long as MACD indicator is above zero center-line even if the MACD lines are heading downwards then the trend is still upwards. As you can see from the above example MACD indicator never went below zero line and afterwards the upward silver trend continued with the MACD indicator maintaining above Zero line and continuing to move upward.
During ranging markets Stochastic Oscillator indicator will give the fastest trading signals which are prone to whipsaws. This is why stochastic oscillator is best combined with other indicators & the trading signals traded are confirmed by another one or two other indicators.